Beach driving compromise
Prohibit cars on beaches? Here's a simple solution. Allow them to enter and park in short, designated areas nearest to all points of entrance.

Game fish group concerned about boat launch facilties
The members of the Ancient City Game Fish Association are concerned about the lack of and the overcrowded boat launch facilities in St. Augustine and St. Johns County. Our membership agrees that launch facilities in the city and country for the most part are in good condition and they are well maintained; however, parking and overcrowding have become a major issue at most of our launch facilities. Everyone understands the overcrowding issue is due to the ever-increasing boating population, the increased size of the new boats and personal watercraft. In the past, our city and county have not kept pace with the fast growth of the boating population. As a fishing and boating club, we would like to see St. Augustine and St. Johns County officials look into ways to correct our overcrowded launch facilities.

Balsavage suggestion inane and totally unacceptable
The suggestion by a St. Johns County Republican Party official that the judicial appointment of the successor to the distinguished Hon. Judge Peggy Ready should be based on partisan political consideration is shocking, appalling -- and totally unacceptable.

Dog owners thoughtless
I live in a residential area in the historic district. My living room windows overlook the sidewalk.

Biggest thing going on in Hastings: annexation
HASTINGS -- The general election is the biggest national news event this year, but voters in tiny Hastings must decide a question that's even more important to them: annexation or not?

Accused driver pleads his case
If 47-year-old Joseph Bryant Edmonson Jr.'s vehicle hit two 16-year-old girls sunbathing on Anastasia State Recreation Area's beach on June 20 and Edmonson didn't know it, he has a lot of explaining to do.

Barnett driven to succeed
The scrawny teen stepped into the coach's office, his baseball career dangerously close to ending well before it started. All those times his mother had warned him to hit the books instead of the ball field were becoming increasingly prophetic.